The American Dream

The series, “The American Dream” is a collection of palette knife oil paintings featuring famous homes from cartoons. They each represent the pitfalls of home ownership and community development in the United States.

“Yabba Dabba Don’t” features the home of the Flintstones family being taken away due to eminent domain laws. Eminent domain is defined as the right of a government or its agent to expropiate private property for public use, with payment of compensation.

In “Space Waste” the Jetsons home represents the abandonment of the American dream and the mark it leaves on physical space in our culture.

“Rocko’s Postmodern Life” shows a most common theme in home ownership, foreclosure. Foreclosure is defined as the process of taking possession of a mortgaged property as a result of the mortgagor's failure to keep up mortgage payment.

In “Smurfification” the Smurfs community is being overrun with new development from the Masters of the Universe which hints at the idea of gentrification. Gentrification is the process of renewal and rebuiling accompanying the influx of middle-class or affluent people into deteriorating areas that often displaces poorer residents.

In “Family Gone” the home of the Griffin’s from Family guy is taken away in a natural disaster.

For Inquiries on 'The American Dream" contact me directly at sgclarkart@sgclarkart.com.

Yabba Dabba Don't

Yabba Dabba Don't (2015)

16x20in

Oil, Palette Knife on Canvas

Yabba Dabba Don't (gallery)

(2015)

Space Waste

Space Waste (2015)

16x20in

Oil, Palette Knife on Canvas

Space Waste (gallery)

(2015)

Rocko's Post-modern Life

(2015)

16x20in

Oil, Palette Knife on Canvas

Rocko's Post-Modern Life (gallery)

(2015)

Smurfification

(2015)

16x20in

Oil, Palette Knife on Canvas

Smurfification (gallery)

(2015)

Family Gone

Space Waste (2015)

16x20in

Oil, Palette Knife on Canvas

Family Gone(gallery)

(2015)

2014 Artwork

Immortal Flowers I

(2014)

Oil, Palette Knife on Canvas

12x14in

untitled

(2014)

Oil, Palette Knife on Canvas

7x14in

Carpe Diem de la Dia Los Muertos

(2014)

Acrylic, plastic coin on newsprint

18x24in

The Fire Tree

(2014)

Oil, Palette Knife on Canvas

16x20in

Immortal Flowers II

(2014)

Oil, Palette Knife on Canvas

12x14in

Textual Healing

(2014)

Mixed Media

24x36in

Dr. T.J. Eckleberg

(2014)

Oil, Palette Knife on Canvas

24x30in

Sailing to Savannah

(2014)

OIl, Palette knife on Canvas

16x20in

After Leonid Afremov

Sailing on the Sun

(2014)

Oil, Palette Knife on Canvas

16x20in

Magnus Prime

(2014)

Acrylic, Spray Paint on mixed media paper

18x24in

Stream in the Valley

(2014)

Oil, Palette Knife on Canvas

16x20in

After Bob Ross

BAMF

(2014)

Acrylic on mixed media paper

18x24in

Sweet Seclusion

(2014)

Oil, Palette Knife on Canvas

16x20in

Cool Mama Cello

(2014)

Oil, Palette Knife on Canvas

16x20

Immortal Flowers II

(2014)

Oil, Palette Knife on Canvas

12x14in

Artwork 1986-2013

Bub

(2013)

Acrylic, Pencil on newsprint

18x24in

Muerte Lux

(2013)

Acrylic, Colored Pencil on newsprint

18x24in

Meeting Notes

R.I.P. SAMO

(2013)

Acrylic on packaging paper

8x11

Le Parapluie Sombre (The Somber Umbrella)

(2013)

Acrylic/Colored Pencil on newsprint

18x24in

Imagination Exercise

(2013)

Marker on paper

?x?in

Friday Night Lights

(2013)

Oil, Palette Knife on Canvas

24x30in

Snowy Knoll

(2013)

Oil, brush/knife on Canvas

16x20in

After Bob Ross

Walk Away

(2013)

Oil, Palette Knife on Canvas

16x20

Some Plan Saffold Flies

(2012)

Oil, Palette Knife on Canvas

11x16

An Honest Days Work

(2012)

Oil on Canvas

16x20in

Sallie

(2012)

Oil, Acrylic on Canvas

24x36in

Dear old Destiny

(2012)

Mixed media

12x18in

Palette Knife 2

(2012)

Oil, Palette Knife on Canvas

16x20in

Savage Journey to the American Dream

(2012)

Oil on canvas

16x20in

Palette Knife 1

(2012)

Oil, Palette knife on Canvas Paper

8x11in

Fruit Bowl by Moonlight

(2012)

Oil on Canvas Paper

12x16in

Bon Moments a..Le Chat Tachete

Good Times at the Spotted Cat

Oil and Colored Pencil on Bristol

After Theophile Steinlens, "Let Chat Noir" (1896).

The Spotted Cat is a New Orleans Jazz Club/Bar

Wining Daun

(2011)

Acrylic,Oil,Pencil on paper

12x18in

Mystique Before a Mirror

(2011)

Oil,Acrylic, Pencil on paper

12x18in

after Picasso,"Girl Before a Mirror" (1932)

Doomcasso

(2011)

8x11in

Oil,acrylic,marker on paper

After Picasso Self Potrait (1908?)

Untitled

(2011)

oil, pencil on paper

12x18in

Self Portrait

(2011)

Oil on canvas board

8x10in

I saw the Fantastic 4 in Blue

(2011)

Oil,Acrylic,Marker on paper

8x11in

After Charles Demuth, I saw the figure 5 in Gold (1928)

Untitled

(2010)

Acrylic on canvas board

16x20in

Untitled

(2010)

Fantastic Four

(2011)

Marker on paper

12x18in

Wolverine

(2011)

Marker on Paper

12x12in

Landscape Practice I

(2003)

pencil on paper

8x12in

Landscape practice II

(2003)

pencil on paper

8x12in

Landscape practice III

(2003)

Pencil on paper

8x12in

Tiger

(2000)

Acrylic on paper

16x20in

Ninja

(1999)

Pencil on Newsprint

11x14in

Magneto

(1999)

Pencil on Newsprint

11x14in

Deadpool II

(1999)

Pencil and Paint Pen on Newsprint

11x14in

Deadpool I

(1999)

Pencil on Newsprint

11x14in

Hobgoblin

(1999)

Pencil on Newsprint

11x14in

Green Goblin

(1999)

Pencil on Newsprint

11x14in

Namor and Invisible Woman Affair

(1999)

Pencil on Newsprint

11x14in

Untitled(woman in water)

(1999)

Pencil on Newsprint

11x14in

Pokemon I

(1999)

Pencil on Newsprint

11x14in

Pokemon II

(1999)

Pencil on Newsprint

11x14in

Bart Man

1991

Crayon, pencil on construction paper

8x11in

My first public health advertisement!

X-Mas Card

1990

Crayon,Pencil on note card

4x5in

Re-Impressions

Recreations of some of my favorite artist work using the palette knife.